Here’s a movie poster announcement we finished recently. The picture itself didn’t really need much work at all. Most of the work was integration into the poster design.

Here’s a list of some things that were done:

• Covered most of the top background with a pink-to-white gradient.  I painted a mask for it so it didn’t make the white above the baby turn pink.
• Added some saturation and contrast to the picture, especially the pink clothing and the skin.  I made the contrast of the feet area more defined, as that area was a little close to the color of the white sheet next to it, and I wanted it to pop off the white better.
• The sheet highlights weren’t completely white, so to help the transition from white sheet to white at the bottom of the poster, I added a curves adjustment layer to boost the highlights more, and then painted a mask to only have it affect the bottom part completely.

As always, you can see a slightly bigger version of this and other nouncement examples at our gallery page.

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The work on this one is pretty subtle, but much of the time that’s the kind of work that’s required.

Work done:

• Boosted the contrast in general, and darkened the greens.
• Added some vignetting to darken the corners and put more focus in the middle.
• Enhanced the blue eyes a little.